Cognitive neuroscience is one of the research priorities of the University of Reading (UoR), and over the last years we have built up a strong and interesting interdisciplinary group of excellent researchers.

Recently, UoR has been awarded with a 'Bridging the Gaps' grant for interdisciplinary research on 'Cognitive Systems Sciences' (CSS) from the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of UK). The idea is to bring together psychologists, linguists, mathematicians, and computer scientists to make progress with the basic and important questions of our field.

As part of the CSS program, we are organising a two day workshop on

Dynamical Systems in Language

To be held at the University of Reading, September 08 - 09, 2008.

The aim of the workshop is to bridge the gaps between neural computation and symbolic cognition and will focus on issues such as: